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Ella Primeau

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she/her Trans, maker of bus maps. Biological female. Gatineau/Ottawa, en/fr

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Forget the 'Night Mayor' Ottawa needs night buses to revitalize its night life

Hello everybody this is the first article I've written please be nice and share if you enjoyed much love thanks <3

03.03.2026 20:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 5 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

Any bus is a party bus if you disregard open container laws !! Just hop on the 12 after 5pm and you'll see :)

23.02.2026 14:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Get this bitch OFF of leaflet

23.02.2026 14:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Donate to Help support Ella through bottom surgery recovery !!, organized by Elizabeth Primeau Hi lovelies !! I am seeking gender affirming surgery at GRSโ€ฆ Elizabeth Primeau needs your support for Help support Ella through bottom surgery recovery !!

Raising money for bottom surgery recovery :) - note I am very fortunate in that these surgeries are covered by Canadian healthcare. I am raising money to support myself through recovery, not the surgery itself. I will be off work for quite a while.
gofund.me/daa1e027

07.01.2026 15:19 ๐Ÿ‘ 17 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Mostly hobby although I have been commissioned to design official maps in the past.

06.01.2026 20:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I'm back to working on the STO service map. Gatineau deserves a pretty system map. Brushing up on my french to try to make this system comprehensible but goddamn it's complicated. I've never made a map with so many info-boxes and I'm trying not to make it overwhelming.

06.01.2026 15:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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one thing I've enjoyed doing on the STO map (and part of the reason it's taking so long) is lovingly stenciling in every single street to fill in the empty space while trying to maintain readability. I think it produced something really really pretty <3

17.09.2025 18:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

30 minute frequency on a train line that opened this year and cost $2 billion

Ottawa transit is in a death spiral. Please email your city counselors to tell them we won't stand for this.

03.09.2025 19:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

every time anything happens downtown STO is always like "i ain't fuckin dealing with that just call it all off we're staying in la belle province"

21.08.2025 17:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another event in Ottawa another cancellation of all interprovincial bus service (except the 400 wow how thoughtful /s)

21.08.2025 16:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Supposedly it will run St Laurent-Airport although exact routing and frequency is not yet known I also cannot speak to the validity of these rumors

21.07.2025 11:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You didn't hear this from me but I've heard whisperings that they're bringing back the 97 in the fall service change

21.07.2025 11:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I still think about the restaurant/Montreal sign daily

14.06.2025 18:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I like the old ones :(

12.06.2025 17:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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sit

09.06.2025 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Mayhaps I will make the scripts more robust and publish to GitHub as a CLI tool

09.06.2025 18:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's a script I wrote in Python !! It uses my Google maps timeline (which you can download as a huge JSON file with Google takeout) and matches visits against US/Canada census regions, counts the visits, then plots them using the Folium Choropleth class :)

09.06.2025 18:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Choropleth map of everywhere I've ever been !!! (I need to travel more)

09.06.2025 17:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Sometimes when I'm driving down baseline I think about pulling up to the bus stop and going "I'm the 88 hop in" because what then?? What then??

31.05.2025 20:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh my god your website is beautiful and i love it

28.05.2025 15:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A tale as old as time

27.05.2025 13:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You'll never guess

23.05.2025 23:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Rare Ellaposting because my makeup was incredible last night

14.05.2025 13:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love absorbing Quรฉbec culture (smoking cigarettes)

14.05.2025 03:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"I'm not gonna misgender you to prove a point" great here's your medal fuckass

13.05.2025 15:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New programming idea just dropped - maybe if I had a bigger platform I could effectively croudsource an ideal OC Transpo system. hmmmm

13.05.2025 15:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's so bullshit how expensive it is

12.05.2025 02:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Take the Canadian !!!

12.05.2025 00:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

People will come within a foot of crumpling your body with their two ton death machine and then give you a lil wave like "ohhh haha. didn't see you there lil buddy !! my bad !!" as if that's anywhere near a proportional reaction.

Normalize driving like you give a shit about pedestrians' lives.

11.05.2025 20:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0